How to Use scanner in a Sentence

scanner

noun
  • First step: Place the carrier on the belt that leads to the scanner.
    Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • My polling place has iPads and ID scanners at the check-in desk.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, 4 Mar. 2020
  • And some who opt for waiting in the dry cell come around to the scanner.
    James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • If your home office lacks a scanner, now’s the time to pick one up.
    Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The man was in shock — the scanner showed his ticket was a winner.
    Daniella Segura, Miami Herald, 27 May 2024
  • According to scanner traffic, the man was shot in the face and chest.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Bloom bought one of the first Mac computers in 1984 as well as one of the first scanners.
    Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The next step is to open the scanner up to the research community.
    Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That is the ballot that the voter puts into a scanner, which records the votes.
    Kate Brumback, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The scanner told him to claim his prize at the state lottery’s claim center.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2025
  • For a few seconds Nixon didn’t speak, the beep of a package scanner in the background.
    Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The group listened to a police scanner and learned the little girl was shot.
    Fox News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Get a trash can, a scanner, a filing box, and a shredder.
    Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The scanner was the clear winner for a couple of our test photos.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 24 July 2022
  • Getting a dog to lay still in a loud MRI scanner is a challenge in and of itself.
    NBC News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • It will be treated like a hip pack, which cannot be worn into the body scanners.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2023
  • Before you get started, make sure the glass on your scanner and your prints are clean and dust-free.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Springer said the chief carries a police scanner with him.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • When they're done shopping, Grapevine customers simply pass through a scanner on the way out of the store.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There should be no reason to bring a gun into a room with an MRI scanner.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • For the study, Kun-kun and 17 other dogs were trained to lay motionless in a brain scanner.
    People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The new scanners can more easily see through all the clutter in bags.
    CBS News, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The airport body scanner issued an alarm in her groin area.
    ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The all-in-one is a printer, copier, scanner and fax machine.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The goal, apparently, is to roll out the scanners at Whole Foods stores across the country.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2019
  • How many people have access to the data that comes out of each scanner?
    cleveland, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Using your smartphone as a scanner can save a lot of time — and paper.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The scanner showed some unknown anomalies around Smith’s groin area.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Still, in 2023, researchers decided to try again using a newer type of GPR scanner.
    Aspen Pflughoeft july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Protect bank cards, credit cards, ID, or passports from scanners that can hack and commit fraud and theft by sliding them into the sleeves.
    Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025

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